Save the date! Posthumus Conference 2025 to be held on 27 and 28 May in Nijmegen
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The N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to inform you that the annual Posthumus Conference in 2025 will be held on Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 May 2025; please note that because of Ascension Day (Thursday 29 May) the conference in 2025 will be on Tuesday and Wednesday in stead of the usual Thursday and Friday. The Posthumus Conference will be hosted by Radboud University Nijmegen under the expert guidance of Dr Dries Lyna, Dr Joris van der Tol and their team. Early December you may expect a special newsletter with further details but do save the dates already!
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NWO Vidi Grant awarded to Pim de Zwart
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Dr Pim de Zwart, Posthumus fellow and research director of our research network ‘Globalisation, Inequality and Sustainability in Long-Run Perspective’, received a Vidi Grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his project entitled: ‘Tragedy of the Tropics: Colonialism, Commodities, and Commons in Southeast Asian Deforestation since 1850’. Pim's Vidi project explores which structural factors inhibit the transition to more sustainable land and forest use and how these have emerged historically. More specifically, it investigates how trade and colonialism affected deforestation rates in insular Southeast Asia and in what ways these relationships were shaped by local land rights and sociopolitical inequalities since 1850, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and combining colonial-era vegetation and topographic maps with statistical and qualitative sources to construct a detailed picture of the spatial transformation of insular Southeast Asia. The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates Pim with this grant!
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NWO XS Grant awarded to Felix Meier zu Selhausen
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Dr Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Posthumus alumnus and fellow, currently affiliated with the Department of History at Utrecht University, has been awarded an XS Grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his project entitled: ‘Colonial Origins of African Population Growth? Evidence from Missionary Church Registers in Tanzania’. Felix’s project will collect unexplored historical church registers of the earliest ten Lutheran mission stations in Tanzania to reconstruct and examine child mortality and fertility change under colonial rule. This will significantly improve the understanding of the historical origins of African population growth and shed new light on when and why health improved in the world’s poorest region. The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates Felix with this award!
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Annual Report N.W. Posthumus Institute 2023 available
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The General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to present you the N.W. Posthumus Institute Annual Report 2023. The report provides you with an overview of activities, results and developments regarding the N.W. Posthumus Institute in 2023. |
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MISSED THIS? Changes curriculum PhD Training Programme |
In the most recent board meeting, the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute agreed to implement some changes in the PhD Training Programme. We already announced these changes in the previous newsletter but in case ou missed this please visit our website about this!
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FRESH workshop ‘Empire and Economic Development’ (Utrecht 28 February 2025) – deadline abstracts 13 December 2024 |
On 28 February 2025, Utrecht University will host a FRESH workshop on Empire and Economic Development. Frontier Research in Economic and Social History (FRESH) meetings are aimed at researchers in any field of economic and social history. The purpose of the meetings is to enable scholars to present their ongoing research at an early stage to an audience of interested peers. Keynote speaker of this particular meeting will be Tirthankar Roy, Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. Organisers of the meeting are Posthumus fellows and alumni Maanik Nath (Utrecht University) and Sandra de Pleijt (Frontier Research in Economic and Social History series organiser) in cooperation with John Tang (Utrecht University. This meeting is made possible thanks to funding made available by the European Historical Economics Society (EHES) and the N.W. Posthumus Institute. Abstracts for presentations should be submitted ultimately 13 December 2024.
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Workshop ‘Since 1624: Studying the Impact of the VOC in Taiwan’ (Radboud University Nijmegen, 18 December 2024)
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As follow-up of the publication ‘Since 1624: Taiwanese-Dutch Relations’ (2024), this workshop will delve into the historical influence of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) on Taiwan, focusing on how this period continues to shape academic inquiry. The workshop aims to highlight new methodologies, emerging perspectives, and interdisciplinary frameworks that are enhancing our understanding of this pivotal chapter in the history of both Taiwan and the Netherlands, shedding light on its enduring legacy and relevance today. During the workshop scholars will present their work, followed by general discussion with the commentators and the audience. The workshop is co-organized and co-funded by the Taipei Representative Office, the research network ‘Routes and Roots in Colonial and Global History’ of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, and the Department of History, Art History and Classics at Radboud University. Registration is open to all interested until 11 December 2024.
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Conference of Young Demographers (Charles University, Prague, 5-7 February 2025)
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The 2025 annual international Conference of Young Demographers will be held at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague on 5-7 February 2025. The conference organisers aim to create a relaxed and welcoming environment where especially early career researchers can share their work in progress and thoughts with their peers. The conference is supported by the Research Network 'Life-courses, Family, and Labour' of the N.W. Posthumus Institute.
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Workshop Organizing Data with Nodegoat (Amsterdam, 29 Nov. 2024) – a few places left, registration deadline 25 November 2024
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Our colleagues from the Research School Political History organise a workshop where historians (in training) will learn to work with the research environment Nodegoat in order to store, organize, connect and analyse their own data in a relational database – with a special eye on how to use these skills in a political historical research project. There are still some spaces left for MA or PhD students who are interested. Nodegoat is a web-based research environment especially developed for the humanities and used by an international research community. The workshop will be supervised by Thomas van Gaalen MA (Radboud University Nijmegen) with Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels (LAB1100). Registration is possible until ultimately 25 November 2024. Participation is valued at 1 EC.
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CEPR workshop ‘Public Health Interventions in the Long Run: Causes and Consequences’ (Wageningen, 27-28 March 2025)
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Daniel Gallardo-Albarrán, fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, cordially invites paper proposals to express interest in attending the CEPR workshop ‘Public Health Interventions in the Long Run: Causes and Consequences’, which will take place on 27 and 28 March 2025 at Wageningen University. The workshop aims to bring together leading researchers on the topic from various fields, such as economic history, economics, historical political economy, demography or public health history. Kenote speaker will be Professor Melissa Thomasson (Miami University/NBER). Submissions on any time period and geographic region are welcome. Abstracts should be sent ultimately 15 December 2024 in accordance with the guidelines mentioned on the event webpage .
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Questionnaire unlocking historical sources (Huygens Instituut) |
The Huygens Institute for Dutch history and culture provides digital access to numerous historical sources and literary works. The Huygens Institute aims to provide access to such sources to both academics as well as to the general public as much as possible. Through the project ‘Werk aan Uitvoering’ [‘Work in Progress’], the institute strives to improve inter-linkage between these various sources, to make them searchable, and to provide context and access to these sources to all persons interested. The Huygens Institute therefore calls upon researchers who make use of historical sources (be it either for study, research, or out of hobbyism) to help improving the unlocking of these sources! Please use the button below and fill out a short (5-7 min.) questionnaire, available in Dutch and English.
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NIEUWE DATUM: Workshop Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief (NEHA) over economische ongelijkheid (IISG, Amsterdam, 5 februari 2025)
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~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ In het licht van de groeiende maatschappelijke belangstelling voor inkomensongelijkheid en de verdeling van winsten, organiseert het NEHA op 5 februari 2025 bij het IISG in Amsterdam een workshop die deze urgente thema’s onder de loep neemt. Deze workshop is bedoeld om verschillende perspectieven te verkennen en inzichten te delen over inkomensongelijkheid en winstverdeling, zowel op nationaal als internationaal niveau. Ook de rol van banken in deze kwesties komt uitgebreid aan bod. Drie van de vijf sprekers komen vanuit de academische wereld (onder wie Posthumus-alumnus Amaury de Vicq), de andere twee vanuit het maatschappelijke veld. De verschillende sprekers zullen elk verschillende aspecten van economische ongelijkheid belichten. De workshop is vrij toegankelijk. Deze workshop was oorspronkelijk op 14 november 2024 maar vanwege de geplande onderwijsacties destijds uitgesteld. |
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Environmental History PhD Seminar (Roosevelt Institute, Middelburg, 12-13 June 2025 – deadline abstracts 30 Nov. 2024 |
Opportunities for pursuing research in environmental history are expanding in the Netherlands and beyond. In the wake of accelerating climate change, many environmental historians are reflecting on how the environment changes their research practices and the implications of doing environmental historical research while inhabiting the era of climate change. To further promote and facilitate dialogue within this growing field of research, the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies and the Dutch Environmental History Network are organising an International PhD Seminar in Environmental History in Middelburg on 12-13 June 2025. Abstracts for this seminar can be submitted until ultimately 30 November 2024.
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3rd Global Conference on the History of Risk and Insurance (Warsaw, Poland, 3-4 July 2025) – deadline abstracts 16 December 2024 |
On 3 and 4 July 2025, The Warsaw School of Economics will be hosting the Third Global Conference on the History of Risk and Insurance. This conference investigates insurance as crucial to social development, economic advances, finance globalisation, and general capitalism. It discusses risk and how people have coped with it from the early beginning of human society to the era of artificial intelligence, locally, regionally, and internationally, with a closer look at the Central and Eastern European regions. This global lens invites the combination of the wide global perspective with local, micro-historical perceptions. The conference combines business professionals and academics from around the world. Abstracts (500 words max.) are due by 16 December 2024 |
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Already following us on Mastodon? |
As of 1 March 2024, the N.W. Posthumus Institute has started using Mastodon as social medium, following the decision to stop using X, formerly known as Twitter, actively for new announcements, as a result of the current developments surrounding the X platform. Do sign up with Mastodon and follow our account to keep updated frequently with new items and developments. Join us on Mastodon!
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Image credits: View on Nijmegen: Nijmegen, view from the Belvédère towards the west, aquarel by Derk Anthony van de Wart, painted between 1815 and 1824. Collection Rijksmuseum object RP-P-1885-A-8696. Public Domain.
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